Word: held
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plans were adopted late Saturday at a closed session of the largest anti-apartheid conference ever held in South Africa. It was attended by 4662 Black, white, Indian and mixed-race delegates from 2128 organizations...
...approve her request." Associate Dean Timothy Cross never brought up renovations during his call. "Harvard's reputation" appeared to be the sole reason for the rejection; "logistical concerns" were not even mentioned. When I inquired whether there was any other place in the University where the conference might be held, I received a monosyllabic response...
Despite subpar shooting, the Crimson played excellent defense, boxed out and held Vermont to only one shot on most possessions. The Cats mounted a series of surges in the second half but sophomore guard Erin Maher's three-point bomb and a key bucket by Springer in the waning minutes slammed the door on the Cats...
...back to square one, by changing his mind or getting the sack. Even if he stays on his present course, he will remain the ruler of a big country with large arsenals. There is enough history ahead for all but the most jaded. Once the malign magnetic field that held us with such power breaks, however, conservatives will have to find new ways to meet history. "Most of us," wrote political philosopher Kenneth R. Minogue in 1963, "are, in some degree or other, liberal. It is only the very cynical, the unassailably religious, or the consistently nostalgic who have remained...
...Escalon offensive rattled Cristiani, who only three days earlier had held a press conference to display a cache of weapons, including 24 surface- to-air missiles, found in the wreckage of a twin-engine Cessna that had crashed some 70 miles east of San Salvador. The plane almost certainly took off from Nicaragua, bolstering Cristiani's conviction that Ortega's Sandinista government was supplying arms to the F.M.L.N. despite a personal promise to Cristiani last August not to do so. Cristiani suspended diplomatic relations with Nicaragua and refused to attend a summit of Central American Presidents scheduled for this weekend...